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Mala Mala

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this near-human woman was a little-known bounty hunter with exception marksmanship. In her youth, she hated droids, and often used them as target practice with her partner, Nikk Zavod. Zavod doublecrossed her, claiming that he knew the location of Chewbacca, while all he really wanted to do was steal her ship. He asked her to check out an infestation of Corellian limpets in the thrusters, then blasted off while she was still inside the exhaust nacelles. Zavok left her for dead, but it was Chewbacca himself who found her dying body. He nursed her back to health, although she was badly disfigured and needed cybernetic replacements for much of her body. When she tried to communicate with Chewbacca, all the Wookiee could do was mutter the name of his wife, Mallatobuck. Thinking that he was talking to her, she decided that her new name would be Mala Mala. She used a robotic construct to move around, and gave it a brain so that it could act without her constant attention. She named it 4-D. She also used several other droids to assist her in her work as a boutny hunter. She was nearly killed on Centares when Darth Vader learned that Luke Skywalker had destroyed the first Death Star. Vader had all the witnessed to the interrogation which produced the name executed, and Mala barely escaped with the name of Luke Skywalker to sell. She confronted the Alliance pilot who was interrogated, and agreed to shoot him rather than let him fall into Vader's hands. Mala was then chased through the nearby woods until she as cornered on a point of land. She and 4-D were forced to jump in order to escape,and 4-D was crushed in the attempt. She was rescued by another of her droids, B-6, and together they fled to Coruscant. They were shot down by the Imperial perimeter patrols, and their small ship crashed outside Imperial City. B-6 was damaged in the crash. She used the droid as a trap to delay the stormtroopers, but was eventually caught by a patrol of stormtroopers. It was later revealed that Mala was secretly working for Emperor Palaptine, and was tracking the Dark Lord during his hunt for the pilot who won the Battle of Yavin. She returned to Coruscant to provide the pilot's name to Palpatine himself, in return for a new ship and a load of droid parts to rebuild her friends. Palpatine then used the name - Luke Skywalker - to punish Vader even more for the destruction of the Death Star.